4 Maccabees 14:8-10

Revised Standard Version

⁸ so these youths, forming a chorus, encircled the sevenfold fear of tortures and dissolved it. ⁹ Even now, we ourselves shudder as we hear of the tribulations of these young men; they not only saw what was happening, yes, not only heard the direct word of threat, but also bore the sufferings patiently, and in agonies of fire at that. ¹⁰ What could be more excruciatingly painful than this? For the power of fire is intense and swift, and it consumed their bodies quickly.